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FeedPhoto listing showing cycle parking (bad)
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This listing only shows photos within a square radius of 15 kilometres of the centre of Cambridge.
Go to the national CycleStreets photo listings for photos beyond.
What happens when there's not enough cycle parking: people park several spaces abreast, and bikes fall over. In this case, this is done to excess. And so bikes end up in the path of passing vehicles, with wheels being flattened.
The scene greeting visitors to Cambridge on their way from the railway station. An acute lack of secure cycle parking leads to bikes parked insecurely to the wooden railing, with the result of this vandalism.
These parasol type hanging 'designer' cycle parking, known as 'meathooks', were so unpopular they were replaced after only a few months.
Opportunistic cyclists use the skip as a temporary place to park while visiting the pub opposite.
Inadequate cycle parking at Tesco, Newmarket Road. Note: There is a fundamental problem with the design of these particular 'toastracks'. The rails on the toast-rack are spaced such that one of the bike wheels has to 'sit' on the top of ... [more]
This is an area of high levels of cycle theft. Yet not a single cycle parking stand is available, despite literally hundreds of insecure bikes being left against walls. Car parking on the opposite site of the road should be selectively remo ... [more]
Nowhere to park bikes here (officially), but such an obvious need, and there\'s plenty of space.
Hopeless wheelbender cycle parking! The front wheel was locked to the rack, but the rest of the bike has gone. Often a front wheel of another bike will have been purloined to make up a whole bike.
The battle to eliminate wheel benders from Cambridge gets a massive punch in the face from this Boxing Club which has bodged some of the worst cycle racks in modern times against this Victorian era building.
This newly opened supermarket does not seem to have provided any cycle parking for customers. In contrast see this nearby supermarket: #35343
The 'phone boxes outside this former telephone exchange seem battered, ignored, and redundant. There's a huge demand for cycle parking in this area, as these signs confirm.
This supermarket did not provide any cycle parking for customers, and nor did the city council enforce its own planning regulations that would have forced it to find a solution. Hence there is a bike leaning against the shop, not properly s ... [more]
Lots of bikes cling to the balcony supports in this relatively new development. Clearly the cycle parking that was provided, (see nearby photos or e.g. #35319 and #35317) has been inadequate. It would have seemed easy in a new developmen ... [more]
Complicated wall mounted cycle racks in a ground level car park. Why ordinary Sheffield-style cycle parking couldn't be used here is beyond me. If you look carefully you'll notice that one of the racks in the middle of the photo has come aw ... [more]
By counting the blockwork, which are usually 10x20 cm, I estimate these racks on this fairly recent development have been placed at only 50 cm spacing. This is not what is in the planning guidance and means that space is wasted here.
This supermarket was allowed to open on this site without providing any cycle parking. For years the building next door (out of shot to the right, but see #17250) has had NO CYCLE PARKING signs affixed to its railings. This is another bl ... [more]
A bicycle clings to a lamppost in a residential street where all the gardens seem to have become car parks.
"Any Bike Found Chained to these Railings will be removed without notice and disposed of" 2 Hills Road, Encore Estates
Unsecured overflow college bike parking. Leads to crowded sidewalk. "The school should have space for all the bikes of the students" (Note the empty space behind the wooden fence)
Bikes parked along Purbeck road, obstructing sidewalk, many badly secured, all avoiding or excluded from on campus bike parking
The worst kind of cycle parking, concrete wheel benders, two of which have been 'upgraded' with a wall anchor point. Grim. This is outside a nursery school.
Overflow parking at Grand Arcade cycle park. Every available bit of wall space take up with bikes. No signs warning cyclists not to do this, so it is seemingly tolerated. (Shh!)
Bicycles not at all catered for in this housing development which dates (I guess) from the 1980s. Unfriendly NO CYCLES signs also scatter the development further eroding the happiness of this unwelcoming site.
Dismal failed cycle parking crammed in as a rubbishy after-thought onto the narrow space in front of parked cars.
Some rather ugly and incompetently installed cycle parking at this pharmacy. Looks as though it has been sited to prevent car parking.
Overflowing with bikes! Many towns and cities in the UK are envious of Cambridge's level of cycling, but here the council has been slow to understand and respond to the demand with the result that cyclists are blamed for blocking access.
Replace one or two car parking spaces with a set of bike racks. This could be done all around Romsey.
Parking crisis at Cambridge University Library (much like everywhere else in Cambridge...)
Cycle parking urgently needed at this shared college house (bikes are left on the other side of the road too) - if the council won't take out a car parking space, maybe they should turn their garage over to secure cycle parking instead?
Cambridge's cycle parking crisis is probably most obvious here (and of course at the station) - the area is so cluttered with bikes that putting in a load of Sheffield stands wouldn't make the situation any worse for pedestrians.
Cambridge's cycle parking crisis is probably most obvious here (and of course at the station) - the area is so cluttered with bikes that putting in a load of Sheffield stands wouldn't make the situation any worse for pedestrians.
Sainsbury's cages being placed on-street rather than within the premises; this space should instead be used for cycle parking
This shed was originally for bikes - as required by the planning regulations, and as shown in #14701. Now two panels have been filled in, and its been creosoted and is a nice home for some bins. No sign of any cycle parking elsewhere, no ... [more]
More cycle parking needed at Addenbrookes Treatment Centre: see also #33328 and #33329
This could be a useful, safe, cycle underpass but I have a choice of getting muddy or wrestling with the gates.
Insufficient cycle parking leading to cycles being attached to lampposts obstructing pavement and insecurely against the wall.
All the petersfield pubs could do with more places to lock your bike up... Blue, Dev, Kingston, Dobblers, Geldart.
Encore Estate Management Ltd anti-cycling. Hostile sign, but plenty of space in front of the railings on the pavement for proper cycle parking.
No cycle parking signs, but plenty of space in front on the pavement for proper sheffield stands
No cycle parking signs, but plenty of space in front on the pavement for proper sheffield stands
No cycle parking signs, but plenty of space in front on the pavement for proper sheffield stands
No cycle parking signs, but plenty of space in front on the pavement for proper sheffield stands
There is no cycle parking in this area, despite the number of houses and flats nearby.
Video made by Cambridge Cycling Campaign in 1998 about the abysmal cycle parking situation at the station. The situation is still as bad as ever, 13 years on. From http://www.camcycle.org.uk/campaigning/videos/#nbw1998b
Next to the Kymoy restaurant 52 Mill Road - can sereve sev eral restaurantrs in the vicinity . 2 stands
Massive overflow of bikes at Trumpington Park & Ride - on a Sunday afternoon, probably as much to London with National Express as into Cambridge by Park & Ride.
Cycles parked informally at the Big Weekend on Sunday. More official cycle parking needed in this area.
Soft plea to cyclists not to lean bikes against this house - a terraced street in Romsey, Cambridge. "Please do not leave bicycles here unatended (sic) please do not lock bicycles here"
The bike racks that used to be here (see #28875) have gone! I hope they are replaced soon.
There is only one small bike rach on Trumpington street, and I have already had one bike stolen as I had to leave it elsewhere, and there is nowhere as far as I know nearby with CCTV either, we need more secure bike parking
The Downing Site is full of rubbish cycle parking; can the County Council help the University improve the situation?
Cycle parking needed here - perhaps shift the car parking on Hooper Street up by one?
More cycle parking needed during examination periods. Overcrowding in the racks outside the Department of Zoology.
More bikes than racks. Overcrowded cycle parking outside the Department of Zoology. See also #31542
Wow, just look at all this space at Cambridge station. Just imagine if there were 1,500 cycles parked here instead of the 96 parking spaces shown here.
The distance between these two cycle stands is 125 to 150cm, depending on how you measure it. Isn't this a waste of space? Three stands could fit into this space. As you can see, there are many other bikes left propped against nearby wal ... [more]
The distance between these two cycle stands is 125 to 150cm, depending on how you measure it. Isn't this a waste of space? Three stands could fit into this space. When I photographed these bikes, there were nine other bikes left propped ... [more]
There were six cycle racks alongside these bollards which were removed when redevelopment work went on in the buildings that are now the Cath Kidston store, next to the Barclays Bank. Why haven't the racks been re-instated? The cycles pa ... [more]
Need to remove these wheelbenders at the Newnham Co-op and add on-street cycle parking instead
near Music Concert Hall main entrance - more needed. Also the ones that are there are slightly too close together.
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